Connecticut western news., 1887-05-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN \ FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Para graphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.


 Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns. The new building erected in Washington by the members oi the Grand Army of the Re pnblic, Department of the Potomac was de1i- cated. Gen. Jerome B. Burke, Department Commander, accepted the building from the Building Committee.
 The D'Oyley Carte Company announces the S,954th performance of the ''Mikado" at Vienna. Patience" will follow.
 The Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit Associa- tion, in session in Washington, elected these officers: President, levitt Wilcox of Chicago; Secretary and Treasurer, w. c. Snow of Chi cago Next year the association will meet in Cincinnati.
 Shelby, Starr X Co., machinery works and Nicol, Burr X Co.'s print shop at Peoria, Ill.,, have been burned. Loss, SIPS, ,0O0.
 Tho Merchants Hotel one of the oldest hotels in Sioux City, la., was burned.
 A man named Fallins murdered an- cause the latter dunned him for the money he owed.
 Louisiana has adopted a rigid quarantine against Sicily on account of the cholera epi- demic.
 Tho Musical Festival of Virginia and North Carolina opened in Petersburg. Carl Zcrrahn of Boston leads the chorus of 25o voices. The orcheS ra Is from Boston, and among the soloists is Fannie Bloomfield, the pianist
 The jury in the case of Calvin P. Graves, the murderer of the Maine game warlens, have rendered verdict of murder in the second degree.
 Mir. Edward J. Graham of Albany was appointed to be priv te secretary ot the Secre- -s~Ft tt>.>fT fT,-n, nan, resigned.
 The Order of Railway Conductors held it's annual convention in New Orleans.
 The Dyas Knitting Company's factory and Robin Jones's creamery at Nashville, Trnn., were burned. Loss S40,O0). The Merchants Exchange was a so in flames, but was saved with slight loss.
 At Huntsville, Ala, William T. Hutchens shot and killed his brother, Hunter Hutchens, and wounded another brother, Charles. The tragedy was the les 1t of family quar- rel.
 A petition has been forwarded from No- gales, AriZ., to President Diaz, of Mexico, ask ing him to pardon the military prisoners who recently created a disturbance on the Ameri- can side, and who were sentenced by court martial to be shot, Another petition has been sent to President Cleveland, asking him to recommend their pardon, and also one to the President requesting him to take no such step. The most destructive fire Northern New Hampshire has ever known was that at Leba- non, which left only one manufactory stand ing, sixty families homeless, and hundreds of men out of work. Loss, about S30o,00O
 The postmaster of Portland Ore., has just appoint d Mrs. c. w. Roby as his assls- tant at salary of Sl27 month. The post master is MT. c. w. Roby.
 The temperature in Northern Iowa ranged from 9 to 9S degrees n the shade. The heat caused the rails on the Illinois Central Rail- road to expand, and two trains were deralled. No one was injured.
 James Griffin was shot dead by George Duval during quarrel in Philadelphia.
 There is & prospect of an agreement be- tween the foreign bondholders and the Nir- | ginia Debt Commission.
 The police stopped two-ounce glove fight between Jack Cusick and Tom Hinck at Mill waukee, at the end of the ninth round. | Xavier Gruber has been arrested in Gin, cinnati, charged with robbing his employer, a | Bavarian government tax collector, of 5000 | marks.
 Half the the town of Minot, Dak, has | been burned. Loss, $50, GOO; no insurance. J. H. Mathews & Co.'S curled hair estab lishment on Canal street, Chicago, was burn ed. Loss S30,0O0. Capt. John HennesSy oi the Fire Department, WIS thrown from an en zine and killed
 | Capt. Arthur W. Tatner, of Boothbay, | Me-, is under arrest on the charge of snug. | gling. Two boxes and two trunks, filled witt 5000 cigars and Jamaica rum and wine, whicl he tried to smuggle into Boston, have beer seized.
 John B. McFerrin, one of the most noted men of the Methodist Episcopal Curch, is dead He has been in the ministry for over half century, and was at the time of his death a the head of the Methodist Publishing Hous at Nashville, Tenn. He was @ years old.
 A large anti-Coercion meeting in Chicago was attended chiefly by weil-to-do-people.
 A fire at Garden City, Kan, destroyed Smith X Smiths grocery and other propert valued at S5o, ,00O.
 A jury has given Mrs. Maria Bell, of Ian caster, Pa., $500 damages against the Penn syivania Railroad Company for the loss of he husband, who was killed on the company tracks.
 Mrs. Mary Snyder, 70 years of age, con mitted suicide at Hagerstown, Md, by strans ling herself with her apron strings. She ha been insane for some time, and this was he second attempt upon her life.
 Gen. Greedy, Chief Signal Officer, wi hereafter issue special weekly bulletin, wit the view of D. omptly placing before the publi each Monday morniug reliable informatio relative to the climatic conditions ill the ayri cultural districts of the country. | -1uc uoiloil pdSScliSCT tTulu lOT Su1caS, was wrecked by a misplaced switch nea Greencastle, Ind. The engine and tende rolled down an emhankment and several cal were derailed. Engineer Green was badl scalded. Fireman Mikell saved himself | jumping.
 Thomas A. Edison, who recently returne from Florida, is much improved, and hop, are entertained of his ultimate recovery.
 Warren k. Nissan, a 10-year-old bo, while fishing in the Delaware, three mile above Milford. Pa, his hook baited with Il unsightly insect known as the 'clipper caught six pound roe shad, which, contral to all accepted scientific theories, had selze the bait and swallowed it. This was the fir shad of the season in the upper Delaware, an the first one ever known to have Leen caugl with hook and line.
 A huge story of an immense snake con from Clarkstown, N. Y. John H. Adams the Hackensack swamp which measured nea ly eight feet in length and was nine inches circumference' Clarkstown is a prohibitic town.
 The house of Levi Robinson, wealth farmer of Parker township, Ill.,, was broke into during the absence of all the family al robbed of nearly S6,O00 in cash. Mir. Robi son has been lying at the point of death f' the past two weeks at Q hotel Marshall. always distrusted banks, keeping ail his reaG cash secreted on the premises. The Mechanics Lien Won.
 In 1883 Fitzgerald X Finn built for John Mcdonald eight buildings in Madison al